FedEx: Justice Department Dismisses Charges Over Online Pharmacy Shipments
June 17 2016 - 06:37PM
Dow Jones News
By Josh Beckerman
FedEx Corp. said the U.S. Justice Department has dismissed all
remaining criminal charges against the company over shipments from
online pharmacies.
In a 2014 indictment, the Justice Department accused FedEx of
ignoring government warnings from as far back as 2004 that it was
shipping drugs from internet pharmacies that weren't legally
prescribed. Charges against the company included conspiracy to
distribute controlled substances.
FedEx argued it was legally protected as a company that carries
goods for the public. The company said it shipped more than 10
million packages a day and can't police every one.
A majority of the charges against FedEx were dismissed in March,
as the judge said the government named the wrong defendant,
resulting in charges being filed past the statute of limitations. A
trial on the remaining charges had begun Monday in San
Francisco.
"FedEx is and has always been innocent," the company said
Friday. "The government should take a very hard look at how they
made the tremendously poor decision to file these charges."
The Justice Department didn't immediately respond to a request
for comment.
In 2013, United Parcel Service Inc. agreed to pay $40 million to
settle a probe concerning shipments on behalf of online
pharmacies.
Write to Josh Beckerman at josh.beckerman@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
June 17, 2016 18:22 ET (22:22 GMT)
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